Hays, Brooks--Photographs; Hays, Brooks--Awards; National Conference of Christians and Jews;

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HONORED BY NCCJ
NEW YORK – The three recipients of the National Conference of
Christians and Jews’ Charles Evans Hughes Award, from left, former
Virginia Governor Linwood Holton, former Arkansas Congressman Brooks
Hays, and Ambassador...

Scipio Jones, a prominent African-American attorney from Little Rock, represented the twelve men convicted for their supposed involvment in the Elaine Race Massacre in 1919. Jones wrote this brief, entitled "Arkansas Peons" and published in the...